John Jeremiah Sullivan
John Jeremiah Sullivan
John Jeremiah Sullivanis an American writer and editor. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and southern editor of The Paris Review...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
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At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.
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The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.
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Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence is determined minute by minute by the political reality, but of course, that's not the case for any of us.
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It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
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There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
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At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.
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I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.